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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Dan Goodin of Ars Technica reports on a serious flaw in the
way DNS translation is practiced on Linux servers for many websites, in a
service called Bind, story link here.

The flaw would appear to leave websites vulnerable to DOS
attacks, or to redirection. This may
have happened sporadically in recent months with some small businesses.

The issue would seem to affect administrators at web hosting
companies the most, or those who run their own servers.

Sucuri has a blog post on “Bind9”, “denial of service
exploit in the wild” here.

In 2008, there was a major concern over the security of the
DNS conversion system, enough to cause emergency international meetings to be
hosted by Microsoft. These problems had
been detected by researchers in Finland.
I reported this on my “identity theft” blog on August 9, 2008 (probably not
the best place).

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